Reborn as a tiger, he was chosen by the nation as its guardian beast.

at this time.

In the dense forests of Tianniu Mountain.

Wang Hu was running at top speed.

Rainwater slid down his fur, but couldn't penetrate the thick undercoat.

The sound of his feet landing was so soft that it was almost completely masked by the sound of the rain.

Despite its enormous size, it appeared extremely agile, making almost no noise while running.

It was on a big tree that Wang Hu was passing by.

A bird was taking shelter from the rain when Wang Hu darted past it. It wasn't until Wang Hu was far away that the bird realized something had darted past it. Then, it cried out in surprise and flapped its wings, flying into the sky.

As Wang Hu ran, he couldn't help but glance back. He thought to himself, "This silly bird is only good because I don't hunt it. If it lived in the big forest, I don't know what would have happened if it had ended up in my stomach!"

As Wang Hu drew closer, the fragrance of the flowers became increasingly intense.

He could even feel his internal energy sea accelerating, with the Nine Aperture Divine Stone frantically absorbing the spiritual energy gathered from all around into his body.

A few minutes later.

Wang Hu stopped in front of a steep hillside.

The hillside was covered with weeds that were half a person tall. Beside a blue stone the size of a millstone, a small tree less than thirty centimeters tall stood quietly in the rain.

This tree looks very ordinary; it only has three leaves.

But at this moment, a small, milky-white flower in the center of the leaf is emitting a soft glow.

The rain seemed to be pushed away by some invisible force when it came within ten centimeters of this plant, creating a vacuum zone.

Wang Hu lay down behind a large tree not far away, holding his breath.

He saw the spiritual energy floating in the air around him transforming into wisps of visible white mist, converging towards the center of the flower's stamen.

As spiritual energy was infused into it, the milky-white petal began to tremble slightly.

One piece, two pieces.

The petals began to wither and fall off.

Right in the center of the flower, a crimson fruit is expanding at a speed visible to the naked eye.

It started as small as a grain of rice, then grew to the size of a soybean, and finally became as big as a table tennis ball.

The fruit's surface is crystal clear, and you can vaguely see red vapor flowing inside.

"It's actually a Vermilion Fruit."

Wang Hu sighed with emotion.

The red fruits he had eaten before were all distributed by the state; this was the first time he had ever seen them ripen in the wild.

The process by which that spiritual energy transforms from scattered to orderly and finally condenses into a physical form contains an indescribable natural rhythm.

Wang Hu closed his eyes, trying to use the spiritual energy in his dantian to simulate this rhythm, hoping to gain something special.

But at that moment...

He sensed that the wind direction around him had suddenly changed.

The originally chaotic gale suddenly showed a very slight pause at the top of a tree canopy a hundred meters away.

Wang Hu did not open his eyes, but he had already locked onto the opponent's location through the wind field controlled by the Nine Aperture Divine Stone.

It was a creature that was not very large.

Its breathing rate is extremely fast, and its heartbeat is steady and powerful.

Most importantly, the other party carries an extremely violent energy fluctuation.

Wang Hu couldn't help but open his eyes and glance at where the other person was.

"Snap!"

Before he could even see what it was, a blue arc of electricity flashed past among the shadows of the trees.

The other party made a move.

The figure seemed to defy the laws of physics, suddenly pushing off the slippery branches, its entire body transforming into a streak of blue lightning, heading straight for the vermilion fruit beside the blue stone.

The speed is astonishing.

"Trying to steal my things?"

Wang Hu snorted coldly.

His eyes gleamed with golden light, and the tiger's might within him erupted instantly.

The blue lightning bolt that was rushing towards the Vermilion Fruit suddenly shook violently in mid-air.

That was because Wang Hu's powerful mental pressure directly impacted his consciousness.

But it only lasted for a moment.

The bolt of lightning forcibly twisted its posture in mid-air, its body splitting into three parts.

Three identical blue afterimages, arranged in a triangular pattern, blocked Wang Hu's path from three different angles, while their sharp claws reached out, attempting to grab the ripe vermilion fruit directly.

Wang Hu stood still.

His sense of danger was pounding wildly in his mind.

The afterimage on the left is faint and ethereal.

The afterimage on the right is powerless.

The one in the middle has a devastating penetrating power.

"Fancy and overly complicated."

Wang Hu made a mental assessment.

He didn't even use the wind blades; he simply raised his right forepaw.

Just as the opponent was about to touch the Vermilion Fruit, Wang Hu's tiger claws struck first, accompanied by a low, whistling sound, precisely hitting the side of the afterimage in the middle.

The explosive power enhanced by the Nine Aperture Divine Stone made his movements appear slow, yet they carried an inescapable sense of heaviness.

"Bang!"

A muffled thud.

Accompanied by the crisp sound of bones shattering.

The blue lightning bolt, which had originally come with great momentum, flew out like a tennis ball hit by a racket.

It crashed heavily into a large tree not far away, a tree so thick it would take two people to hug it.

The tree trunk shook violently, shaking down a torrent of rain.

The figure slid down the tree trunk and landed on the ground, and the originally brilliant blue arc of electricity instantly went out.

Upon closer inspection, Wang Hu discovered that the other party was a grayish-brown lynx cat.

It was curled up in the mud, its lower back in a strangely twisted position.

It let out a series of pitiful cries, struggling to stand up, only to find that its hindquarters had completely lost sensation.

Wang Hu slowly walked forward.

He looked down at the lynx.

The other person, with two distinctive tufts of long black hair on his ears, was looking at Wang Hu in terror.

"A 'tiger' from the Northwest?"

Wang Hu looked at this guy and was speechless.

He thought to himself, "I haven't even arrived at the school yet, and I've already crushed the vice principal's rival with a single slap?"

It seems he's messed up the social etiquette.

The lynx stared at Wang Hu, letting out a terrified hiss, its body convulsing in agony.

Wang Hu ignored it, turned around and walked back to the bluestone, opened his mouth and gently curled his tongue.

The ripe red fruit detached from the branch and transformed into a warm current that entered his stomach.

Then he turned his head and looked at the lynx cat lying on the ground.

He had already broken the other person's spine.

If it doesn't receive timely treatment, this lynx cat will likely be ruined for the rest of its life.

Wang Hu took out his phone and snapped a picture of the lynx's face, which was filled with fear.

Then I opened Wang Mingyuan's chat window and sent it.

"Hey Lao Wang, is this what the lynx cat you're talking about looks like?"

It tried to steal my fruit, and I couldn't resist; I think I hit it a tiny bit too hard.

It looks like its back is broken.

After sending the message, Wang Hu put away his phone and looked at the lynx shivering in the rain.

The opponent's eyes, which had originally been filled with lightning, were now filled only with endless despair and an instinctive fear of the strong.

Wang Hu ignored the guy and instead stuck out his tongue to lick the rainwater from the corner of his mouth.

Slowly savoring the taste of the vermilion fruit I had just eaten.

Ah!

These freshly picked ones seem to taste slightly better than the ones we ate before.